The developer of a New Westminster project is giving pre-sale condo buyers a few weeks to make a choice among unusual options that speak to the curveballs facing both builder and buyer in a market environment of rapidly rising prices for condominiums.

Bo Horvat is on the move.
He’s staying in Vancouver, thankfully. The 22-year-old centre signed a six-year, $33-million contract in September, so he’s probably not going anywhere anytime soon, except to a bigger house.

To the question of whether diluted bitumen sinks or floats when it hits water, the short answer is it floats, most of the time, according to a growing body of research being compiled by Natural Resources Canada scientists.